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Name
Simeon Nelson
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Other Occupation
  • Lecturer (Lecturer Reader in Sculpture, School of Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Birth date
1964
Birth place
London, UK
Active Period
  • 1983-
Arrival
  • 1967
Residence
  • 2001- United Kingdom
  • 1967 - 2001 Sydney, NSW
  • 1964 - 1967 London, UK
Training
  • Sculpture (post-technician) Certificate, 1990 National Art School, Sydney, NSW
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1985 - 1987 Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, NSW
  • Art Certificate, 1983 - 1984 National Art School, Sydney, NSW
Cultural Heritage
  • English
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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Related stub people
  • Larkinson, Emma (associate of)
  • Chesworth, David (associate of)
  • Leber, Sonia (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Royal Society for the Arts (associate of)
  • The Art and Architecture Association, London, UK (associate of)
  • Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Arts (ACAVA), London, UK (associate of)
  • Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
Related people
  • Valamanesh, Hossein (associate of)
Related works
  • Ornamatrix (for Sol le Witt) (creator of)
  • Proximities-Local Histories/Global Entanglements (creator of)
  • Terroir/Boudoir (creator of)
  • Wall zip (for Brancusi and Barnett Newman) (creator of)
  • Cactal (creator of)
  • Demonology (creator of)
Related collections
  • Private & corporate collections (collected in)
  • Westpac Bank, Australia (collected in)
  • Tabcorp, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Sydney Open Museum, University of Western Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • NRMA Collection, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Macquarie Bank, Australia (collected in)
  • Grant Samuel & Associates, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Goldman Sachs, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • University of Western Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Deakin University Art Collection, Vic. (collected in)
  • McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Vic. (collected in)
  • Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld (collected in)
  • Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW (collected in)
  • Artbank, Sydney (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK (collected in)
  • Jerwood Foundation, London, UK (collected in)
  • Art/Omi Foundation, New York, USA (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Floating World', Birmingham New Hospital Commission, UK (received)
  • Cactal', public art project -Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK (received)
  • Chain Reactor', public art project, Temple Quay 9 Building, Bristol, UK (received)
  • Artist-in-residence, Royal Geographic Society, London, UK (received)
  • Artist-in-residence, Crytosphere (with funds from the Leverhulme Foundation & Arts Council England) (received)
  • 2005/2008 : 'Flumen', Bank Street Commission, Ashford, Kent, UK (received)
  • 2005 : Finalist, National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (received)
  • Proximities - Local Histories/Global Entanglements', Commonwealth Games Commission (received)
  • 2004/2006 : 'Wahverwandschaft', Deakin University Commission, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Faculty Research Leave Scheme, University of Hertfordshire, UK (received)
  • Individual Grant, Arts Council England (received)
  • Shortlisted for Felton Centenary Monument, National Gallery of Victoria (received)
  • Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Jerwood Foundation, London, UK (received)
  • Aborescence', 199 Knightsbrigde, London, Westminder Public Art Committee (received)
  • 2002 : New Work Grant, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Progettomoderno Commission, Piance Furniture Company, Treviso, Italy (received)
  • Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (received)
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellowship (received)
  • 1999 : Conferences & Workshops Grant, Australian Network for Art and Technology (received)
  • M4 Freeway commission (received)
  • Australian representative, IX Triennale (received)
  • 1997 : 'Landscope (The Machine in the Garden)', permanent siting at the University of Western Sydney, NSW (received)
  • Art/Omi International Artists' Workshop (received)
  • Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • 1995/1997 : 'Ben Chifley and Crucimatrilux', Chifley Square sculpture commission (received)
  • Artist-in-residence - Sydney Grammar School (received)
  • 1994 : Australia Council for the Arts Studio Fellowship, Green Street Studio, NY, USA (received)
  • Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
Related events
  • Iota (exhibited at)
  • Spitalfields Public Art/Sculpture Program (exhibited at)
  • Baroque My World (exhibited at)
  • Terroir/Boudoir (exhibited at)
  • Mappa Mundi (exhibited at)
  • Ornamatrix (exhibited at)
  • Inaugural Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Mirage of Minds (exhibited at)
  • Coagulation (exhibited at)
  • National Sculpture Prize (exhibited at)
  • Stilfragen (exhibited at)
  • Festivus (exhibited at)
  • Jerwood Sculpture Prize (exhibited at)
  • New York Calling (exhibited at)
  • This was the Future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and Today (exhibited at)
  • Tempered Ground (exhibited at)
  • Material World (exhibited at)
  • London Biennale 2002 (exhibited at)
  • Nelson & Valamanesh (exhibited at)
  • Arrivals (exhibited at)
  • Natural Construct (exhibited at)
  • Five (exhibited at)
  • Medium Density (exhibited at)
  • Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Average Density (exhibited at)
  • The Organic and the Artificial: Re-inventing Modernist Design (exhibited at)
  • The Numbers Game (exhibited at)
  • IX Triennale-India (exhibited at)
  • Living City (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta 97: Between Art & Nature (exhibited at)
  • Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Ways of Being (exhibited at)
  • Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia (exhibited at)
  • Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Works on paprt by 20 Australian artists (exhibited at)
  • Caravan Romance (exhibited at)
  • Formal Decay (exhibited at)
  • The Blake Prize for Religious Art (exhibited at)
  • Pachi Pachi 1000 (exhibited at)
  • Distance (exhibited at)
  • The Miracle of the Rose (exhibited at)
  • Landscope (The Machine in the Garden) (exhibited at)
  • Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Transgressions (exhibited at)
  • In the Company of Others (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (exhibited at)
  • World Fare (exhibited at)
  • Crash (exhibited at)
  • Hungry (exhibited at)